Pastor Steven Wedgeworth recently tweeted some interesting quotes from the historian Philip Schaff. See screencaps.
I post these because I agree with Schaff’s vision: the state and the church has an interest in education, and public schools are a legitimate means to further that interest.
This does not mean I endorse public schools as they now exist, but I don’t disagree with public schools in principle. Most of our Protestant forebears, believing in the principle of solidarity, had the same view.
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So what you’re saying is we all need to be post-mil and seek to reclaim public education?
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That’s a fine position as long as we eliminate all federal funding and the department of education. It would be nice to have a state where people who want the system privatized completely can live.
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The federal government really ought not to have any involvement in education. It seems that most of what the DOE does is related to colleges and universities.
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Shouldn’t be involved there either.
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